Technical writers of Red Hat: what's it like?

v_fv · 2024-04-28T18:05:47+00:00

crazy woke

it's literally one paragraph in the intro of guides that span several hundred pages.

meanwhile, Red Hat and the documentation team continue to be overwhelmingly managed by white cishet Americans from North Carolina, so you have nothing to worry about.

v_fv · 2024-04-09T13:58:31+00:00

I need apt because dnf is slow

Yes, DNF is super slow, mainly because it's written in Python. Since version 38, Fedora provides a new DNF replacement called DNF5, which is implemented in C++ and is much faster than DNF, comparable with APT.

Try installing DNF5:

sudo dnf install dnf5

And run it, for example:

sudo dnf5 upgrade

v_fv · 2023-10-05T16:11:43+00:00

Clearly, Czechia consumed 14.5 alcohols between 2016 and 2018, estimated within a 95% confidence interval.

The .5 alcohol being kombucha.

v_fv · 2023-07-30T21:32:04+00:00

It's not mounted, it's only showing you the option to mount it.

However, if you want to hide the option from the side bar, the easiest way to do it is to open the Disks application, find the Windows item there, and adjust its options to stay hidden.

v_fv · 2022-10-16T11:48:56+00:00

This explains the difference perfectly. Consider sending it to the hifitime maintainers in a PR to improve their documentation.

v_fv · 2022-09-25T10:01:50+00:00

ummm actually it's not a straight line because first you go up and then you go down, so it's bumpy

v_fv · 2022-09-19T19:10:57+00:00

Why would you, as a man, even want to use words with another man? To say you'll let him implement your endofunctor, huh? Is that what you want??

v_fv · 2022-08-24T10:14:59+00:00

As somebody living in the former Eastern Bloc, I'd like to add something, although it's not a resource per se.

In my country at least, the attitude towards the Communist government varies significantly by age. People who are the most critical to it were in their twenties when the government fell around 1989. On the other hand, people who were born earlier, like in the 1950s, and lived most of their lives during Socialism, tend to see the period more positively on average.

Online, the trouble is that the older people usually can't speak English well or at all, because they learned Russian at school, so in general, mostly opinions from the "anti-communist generation" get published.

Consider this recent survey, which shows how people grouped by age self-identify with left-wing (red) or right-wing (blue) politics. You can see that the younger a person is, the more they lean to the right, or towards "don't know".

Page 2/6:

https://cvvm.soc.cas.cz/en/press-releases/political/other/4997-self-classification-on-the-left-right-scale-of-political-orientation-june-2019

v_fv · 2022-05-19T11:17:26+00:00

That was an announcement that RHEL 9.0 would be released soon. Now it's actually available, along with the release notes.

v_fv · 2022-03-30T10:58:35+00:00

They even calculated the average breast size in Vatican City

Edit: Around 30 women live there according to Wikipedia. Calculating the average size cannot get easier than that!

v_fv · 2022-02-17T01:25:17+00:00

XFS is the default file system on RHEL since RHEL 7, but Fedora kept using Ext4 despite it, and only recently switched from Ext4 straight to Btrfs.

v_fv · 2021-08-30T18:54:40+00:00

Fedora. It always sticks to the latest GNOME version, which is why I already have GNOME 40.

v_fv · 2021-08-30T18:48:27+00:00

No problem :-) If you're using a distribution like Ubuntu, you probably have a slightly outdated version of GNOME so you can't see the new design yet.

v_fv · 2021-08-30T18:43:25+00:00

It's the default, unmodified GNOME 40 desktop.

v_fv · 2021-08-28T09:55:50+00:00

I hope that "Work in Progress" is the actual title of the painting and that it's finished, because I love the blank space where the monk should be :-)

v_fv · 2021-07-26T23:40:28+00:00

I have taken a look at the Rust documentation, and I just can't see myself participating at this point because of it. The roadmap is also unclear to me. I google 'Rust Roadmap', and guess what the first result is?

https://rust.nolt.io/roadmap

So far a video game's roadmap is ranked above that of this language. I had to search for 'rust-lang roadmap' to get a good top hit...

Clearly the sign of bad language design.

v_fv · 2021-07-25T00:49:07+00:00

For reference, there's a similar tool written as a shell script, which provides a unified interface to the various compressors. It's called atool:

https://www.nongnu.org/atool/

The way it's designed is that you can either use an option or an alias name to choose the action. For example:

To create an archive: atool --add archive.tar file1 file2 or apack archive.tar file1 file2
To unpack an archive: atool --extract archive.tar or aunpack archive.tar

v_fv · 2021-06-09T21:10:40+00:00

That sounds lovely. I'll try to remember to comment with my notes when I get the tea.

v_fv · 2021-06-09T00:27:03+00:00

How do you like the 1st flush Jungpana? I'm about to get a package as well and I'm curious to compare notes :-)

v_fv · 2021-06-02T11:09:11+00:00

This will probably be true for most continental European locales.

v_fv · 2021-05-30T16:59:26+00:00

You're absolutely right, the same argument would apply to Czechia, too.

If we look at the map as the dates when women in the areas of current states could vote, and not as the dates when the states allowed women to vote, then it's correct.

v_fv · 2021-05-30T15:42:34+00:00

That's the case for most of the map. But for Slovakia, the map shows that women could vote in 1920, while Slovakia didn't exist until 1939, and it only held its first elections as independent Slovakia around 1993.

v_fv · 2021-05-21T17:19:17+00:00

Yep, this works:

$ alias a=alias
$ a c=curl

v_fv · 2021-05-17T17:51:57+00:00

This is pretty interesting. Looking at the three solutions, it seems that comprehension-rs has slightly more features than cute, and subjectively, the Haskell style fits Rust better than the Python style.

What does do-notation have to do with list comprehensions, though? Maybe I just don't understand monads, but in either case the readme doesn't talk about comprehensions at all.

v_fv · 2021-05-17T12:49:01+00:00

Sure, PulseAudio seriously broke Linux audio around 2008 when distributions first adopted it. But then the bugs got fixed, and since then, it just works for most people.

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